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the position of the u.s. government has not changed. they will not directly or indirectly arm the opposition in libya or anywhere else. the sense is, this is on an hour-to-hour basis and the immediate danger for not only the syrian civilians but the fate of the assad government is a top concern for the administration. >> schieffer: as tragic as all this is, isn't the real problem knowing who to aid? i mean, we say we want to aid those that are opposing assad, but we don't know who some of these people are. some of them we know where al qaeda. >> right. that has long been the white house worry about arming the different opposition groups, some who are al qaeda. i think what we're seeing here is the president laid out-- he said any moving of chemical weapons would be a red line. if they're moving chemical weapons are we at the red line for the president? his rhetoric shaved both the this issue in terms of when the u.s. will engage. the bright spot for this administration on syria is secretary of state hillary clinton meeting with the russ
the position of the u.s. government has not changed. they will not directly or indirectly arm the opposition in libya or anywhere else. the sense is, this is on an hour-to-hour basis and the immediate danger for not only the syrian civilians but the fate of the assad government is a top concern for the administration. >> schieffer: as tragic as all this is, isn't the real problem knowing who to aid? i mean, we say we want to aid those that are opposing assad, but we don't know who some of...
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this presidential debate about bringing u.s. troops home and out of afghanistan. >> schieffer: and in an odd kind of way, i wonder if this doesn't sort of help the president speed up that, because i think you are going to have more people like newt gingrich, for example, who say, wait, we just got to get ourselves extricated from this thing. >> i think politically it will be difficult for those republicans that argue to stay in afghanistan to make that argument given these current situations certainly. >> schieffer: i want to thank both of you this morning for bringing us some insight into this awful, awful development. i'll be back in a moment with some lighter thoughts. in a minute. [ hermann ] there's always something that's going to have to be done by a certain date. you always have homework, okay? i don't have homework today. it's what's right here is what is most important to me. it's beautiful. ♪ ♪ you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha
this presidential debate about bringing u.s. troops home and out of afghanistan. >> schieffer: and in an odd kind of way, i wonder if this doesn't sort of help the president speed up that, because i think you are going to have more people like newt gingrich, for example, who say, wait, we just got to get ourselves extricated from this thing. >> i think politically it will be difficult for those republicans that argue to stay in afghanistan to make that argument given these current...
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life of the export-import bank, the institution that arranges financing for countries that want to buy u.s. products. a no-brainer in times gone by, but a bipartisan vote on anything is so unusual these days, the "washington post" put it on the front page. the other stunner, the "new york times" reported thursday a billionaire named joe rickets, the founder of t.d. ameritrade, had triggered a series of racially charged ads tying barack obama to the incendiary black power minister jeremiah wright in a way, the strategists wrote, john mccain would never let us do in 2008. the news caused a huge bipartisan uproar, and in a matter of hours, the potential bank roller withdrew his support saying it wasn't his style, and mitt romney, who is usually very cautious about commenting on any unanticipated event, strongly repudiated the whole idea and said he wanted no part of it. well, good for them. too soon to know if this signals a trend toward cleaner campaigns. it probably doesn't, but in this era of anything goes, it's good to know at least a few things still don't. back in a minute. >> schieffer
life of the export-import bank, the institution that arranges financing for countries that want to buy u.s. products. a no-brainer in times gone by, but a bipartisan vote on anything is so unusual these days, the "washington post" put it on the front page. the other stunner, the "new york times" reported thursday a billionaire named joe rickets, the founder of t.d. ameritrade, had triggered a series of racially charged ads tying barack obama to the incendiary black power...
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was it somebody in the u.s. government trying to take credit for this, or they wanted the news-- what do you make of this? well, i think there was a little premature chest-thumbing in this whole thing and i've ordered a preliminary review. and i will tell you, this has been a damaging leak. we shouldn't underestimate what really happened here. when you jeopardize our foreign service liaison partners, any of them that may or may not have been involved, or you jeopardize the conclusion of wrapping up all of the people involved, that's dangerous to our national security. >> schieffer: but let me make sure i understand what you just said here. you're saying that somebody in the u.s. government prematurely leaked this to take credit for it, to brag about it. >> well, you said "brag about it." i said "chest thumping." but it clearly raises some series questions that we're going to have to ask. we do know that the c.i.a. was trying to stop the story. and we know that there was a scheduled white house-- or at least plan
was it somebody in the u.s. government trying to take credit for this, or they wanted the news-- what do you make of this? well, i think there was a little premature chest-thumbing in this whole thing and i've ordered a preliminary review. and i will tell you, this has been a damaging leak. we shouldn't underestimate what really happened here. when you jeopardize our foreign service liaison partners, any of them that may or may not have been involved, or you jeopardize the conclusion of...
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both t to-- their base loves this issue here, and, also, if you talk about this plan here, that the u.s. government allowed guns to go over into mexico and then there was a murder committed with one of these guns, that just sounds like incompetence. then the justice department said that, well, the a.t.f. didn't know about it, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms didn't know about it. well, they did. and it just looks like bungling. they have a case to go after the administration here. on the other hand, as john boehner knows, you can't spend too much time on this. the number one issue is jobs. you don't want to look too fixated on this. you have to hit it and move on. >> chairman issa was asked twice this morning whether he believed there was white house involvement in the cover-up. he said twice no. that's an interesting bit of news this morn as they're about to take the unprecedented step of holding the attorney general in contempt. there are a lot of people that think there should be a message sent to the department of justice on this, but there's also a political case to be made that the
both t to-- their base loves this issue here, and, also, if you talk about this plan here, that the u.s. government allowed guns to go over into mexico and then there was a murder committed with one of these guns, that just sounds like incompetence. then the justice department said that, well, the a.t.f. didn't know about it, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms didn't know about it. well, they did. and it just looks like bungling. they have a case to go after the administration here. on the other...
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we'll be right back with our "face the nation" flashback. [ male announcer ] it would be easy for u.s. olympian meb keflezighi to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪ but when it's this easy to use citibank mobile check deposit at home...why would he? ♪ woooo! [ male announcer ] citibank mobile check deposit. easier banking. every step of the way. >> schieffer: during the 1992 campaign, democratic candidate bill clinton appeared on "face the nation" and tackled a familiar theme-- how do you pass a huge and complicated program without raising taxes. our "face the nation" flashback. >> from cbs news washington, "face the nation," with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. >> schieffer: you're talking about programs that cost billions of dollars, when you talk about health care. how are you going to do that withouting taxes. >> we need insurance reforms. we need to take on the hospital bureaucracies. by first changing the insurance system, and then change the way the rules are affecting them. the
we'll be right back with our "face the nation" flashback. [ male announcer ] it would be easy for u.s. olympian meb keflezighi to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪ but when it's this easy to use citibank mobile check deposit at home...why would he? ♪ woooo! [ male announcer ] citibank mobile check deposit. easier banking. every step of the way. >> schieffer: during the 1992 campaign, democratic...
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: chief oates will be with us this morning as we continue to report on the largest mass shooting in u.s. history, a crime that has so far left 12 dead and 70 wound. even after the arrest of james holmes, questions remain: how and for what reason could all this have happened? we'll also talk to aurora congressman ed perlmutter, aurora mayor, steve hogan, and new york mayor michael bloomberg who says the presidential candidates must stop avoiding the subject of guns. >> where are they now and why don't they stand up and if they want our votes, they better? >> schieffer: we'll also bring in the cbs team covering this story, correspondents barry petersen, bob miller, and bob orr. in london, reports this morning that israeli security forces are searching for an iranian terror squad planning an attack on really olympic athletes. we'll get the latest on that from israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu. plus analysis on all of the above from our own norah o'donnell and john dickerson because this is "face the nation"." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation"
: chief oates will be with us this morning as we continue to report on the largest mass shooting in u.s. history, a crime that has so far left 12 dead and 70 wound. even after the arrest of james holmes, questions remain: how and for what reason could all this have happened? we'll also talk to aurora congressman ed perlmutter, aurora mayor, steve hogan, and new york mayor michael bloomberg who says the presidential candidates must stop avoiding the subject of guns. >> where are they now...
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it's not clear to me that the u.s. district attorney will, in fact,... unless he recuses himself will proceed down that path. that's why we're going to also file in district court a civil suit over the issue executive privilege. >> o'donnell: when will that be? >> i would expect that to be coming in the next several weeks. but it needs to happen. the american people have a right to know what happened here. brian terry's family has a right to know what happened here and the fact is that the only facts that we've received about this entire fast and furious operation came from whistle-blowers and others associated with it. we got no information that helped in our investigation from the justice department at any point in this investigation. the american people deserve the truth. >> o'donnell: finally, you've said recently that you believe that you've got two-thirds chance that republicans will keep the house of representatives. how does the supreme court ruling change that at all? >> well we'll let the pundits figure out the politics of this. when it comes t
it's not clear to me that the u.s. district attorney will, in fact,... unless he recuses himself will proceed down that path. that's why we're going to also file in district court a civil suit over the issue executive privilege. >> o'donnell: when will that be? >> i would expect that to be coming in the next several weeks. but it needs to happen. the american people have a right to know what happened here. brian terry's family has a right to know what happened here and the fact is...
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the reasons that the u.s. has always been engaged in the middle east haven't gone away, if anything, they've become more persuasive. we have the ever-sort of-- its greatest threat to america's stability comes from places like that. there's iran. and now there's an opportunity with all these new democracies, there's an opportunity for a different kind of discussion. the trouble is finding the language. they don't know how to talk with us any more than we know how to talk with them. and it's anything to be, for a while-- this is why losing ambassador stevens is such a huge blow because he was one of the people who actually was beginning to understand how to speak with the people in the street, which explanation his popularity, which explains why so many libyans today are mourning his death. >> schieffer: it is, david, isn't it, it's difficult for people in other parts of the world to understand this country. there probably weren't 100 people in america who saw this movie, or who had ever even heard of it. maybe
the reasons that the u.s. has always been engaged in the middle east haven't gone away, if anything, they've become more persuasive. we have the ever-sort of-- its greatest threat to america's stability comes from places like that. there's iran. and now there's an opportunity with all these new democracies, there's an opportunity for a different kind of discussion. the trouble is finding the language. they don't know how to talk with us any more than we know how to talk with them. and it's...
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is today leaves four u.s. service members dead. as the anti-american protests over a u.s.-made anti-muslim film spread across the arab world from africa to afghanistan to australia, here at home, big questions remain about the safety of u.s. personnel overseas. and how all this will affect campaign 2012. we'll cover it all from all sides with the president of libya's general national congress mohamed magariaf. u.n. ambassador susan rice, and republican senator john mccain. for analysis we'll look to former u.s. ambassador to israel martin indyk. the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. and "new york times" columnist tom friedman. plus we'll talk to the chief washington correspondent of the "times" david sanger. "time" magazine deputy international editor bobby ghosh. and cbs news political director, john dickerson. this is "face the nation" upon captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. with >> good morning again. and here is the latest news from overnight. four american military people have been
is today leaves four u.s. service members dead. as the anti-american protests over a u.s.-made anti-muslim film spread across the arab world from africa to afghanistan to australia, here at home, big questions remain about the safety of u.s. personnel overseas. and how all this will affect campaign 2012. we'll cover it all from all sides with the president of libya's general national congress mohamed magariaf. u.n. ambassador susan rice, and republican senator john mccain. for analysis we'll...
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the u.s. will be there to back them up. that's a very different concept. it's one of sort sharing power, building coalitions. now, you heard mr. romney say at various points he, too, would build coalitions, and i'm sure he would. but the question is does the world view mr. romney as somebody who wants to bring back america allegation the sole superpower? do they view president obama as somebody who can actually engage the rest of the world? what he promised in 2008, he's governed more through drone strikes, through cyber-attacks on iran, through want use of special forces. and that's the mystery of his next four years. >> schieffer: peggy, can we afford-- do we have the money to be the kind of superpower that we-- that-- as david said-- that mitt romney thinks about? >> well, i think if we are going to be a strong force in the world in the future, we will probably have to get our economic realities figured out. it's a funny thing, but i think in part, part of the prestige-- part respect in which we were held in the world the past 50, 100 years, had to do w
the u.s. will be there to back them up. that's a very different concept. it's one of sort sharing power, building coalitions. now, you heard mr. romney say at various points he, too, would build coalitions, and i'm sure he would. but the question is does the world view mr. romney as somebody who wants to bring back america allegation the sole superpower? do they view president obama as somebody who can actually engage the rest of the world? what he promised in 2008, he's governed more through...
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what mitt romney safsd the biggest geopolitical threat the u.s. has, make something of a difference here, was russia, and you saw president obama sort of mock that during the-- during the convention speech. i think that two things are under way here. the first is that there is a bit of a continuing debate within the romney camp about what their foreign policy position should be. you've seen mr. romney move on afghanistan first thing. that the u.s. should kill all the taliban and saying he could live with the 2014 withdrawal date. uniform seen on iran, he's made the argument as you heard the congressman say today, that the president has been weak on iran. well, the president i think can argue that the sanctions are significantly stronger than they were during the bush era, and then, of course, 32 the part he couldn't talk about-- olympic games. not the one that just ended if london, but instead the covert operation against iran's nuclear program started in the bush administration as we pointed out here. but accelerated considerably if obama's time.
what mitt romney safsd the biggest geopolitical threat the u.s. has, make something of a difference here, was russia, and you saw president obama sort of mock that during the-- during the convention speech. i think that two things are under way here. the first is that there is a bit of a continuing debate within the romney camp about what their foreign policy position should be. you've seen mr. romney move on afghanistan first thing. that the u.s. should kill all the taliban and saying he could...
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"newsweek" magazine is reporting this morning that the u.s. government was laying the groundwork to issue sealed indictments against members of the pack taken government or anyone else they believed that had helped bin laden but no smoking gun was found, and the indictments were never returned. have you found since then-- and i know you were in the government at the point this was happening-- is there any evidence that pakistanis were involved? >> well, i think that the theory of, you know, preparing indictments, or laying the groundwork to prepare indictments is a bit of a stretch. when you have something that may be less than 100 people in the entire u.s. government had any inkling of and the people who had any actual understanding of it was, you know, kind of in the below 20 number, the idea that they would be presenting evidence to a grand jury of 23 people about this, the whole process would have been pretty much a waste of paper. but to get to your question which is did they know? after the fact, we had very little indication that anybod
"newsweek" magazine is reporting this morning that the u.s. government was laying the groundwork to issue sealed indictments against members of the pack taken government or anyone else they believed that had helped bin laden but no smoking gun was found, and the indictments were never returned. have you found since then-- and i know you were in the government at the point this was happening-- is there any evidence that pakistanis were involved? >> well, i think that the theory...
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change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >> schieffer: finally today we don't spend a lot of time here bragging about our work and our reporters. we don't even use the word exclusive very much. we think good work stands on its own. but the work this week of collar it a ward an
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i'm wondering, senator, what do you think will be the course of u.s. relations with cuba if castro does go? >> well, it won't be the direction the president has taken it over the last four years. they have these things called people-to-people trips to cuba which ostensibly is for americans to be able to travel to cuba. they're really tourism trips. people go over there for salsa dancing and cigar rolling lessons and all it is is a source of hard currency for the castro regime. you talk about fidel cast trow beak dead but i'll tell you what's near death in cuba is democracy. the cause of freedom in cuba has been hurt by the additional trips to cube and remittances providing hard currency for that regime. >> schieffer: are there lessons to be learned for today's politicians from what happened during the cuban missile crisis? we did avert, and probably came as close as we'll ever come, or had come to that point, to nuclear war. are there lessons to be taken away from that? >> you read the accounts after the fact it was even more chilling in terms of some
i'm wondering, senator, what do you think will be the course of u.s. relations with cuba if castro does go? >> well, it won't be the direction the president has taken it over the last four years. they have these things called people-to-people trips to cuba which ostensibly is for americans to be able to travel to cuba. they're really tourism trips. people go over there for salsa dancing and cigar rolling lessons and all it is is a source of hard currency for the castro regime. you talk...